By Ebere Chibuzor The outgoing High Commissioner, People’s Republic of Bangladesh, His Excellency, Shameen Ahsan, has described arts and culture as a veritable platform designed to unite the diplomatic community in Nigeria at large, Daily Times gathered. Ahsan who made the disclosure Wednesday at Abuja while commending Director-General, National Council for Arts and Culture, NCAC, […]
Thousands of Bangladeshi workers demonstrated on Sunday to demand unpaid wages as some factories resumed limited-scale operations amid a nationwide virus lockdown, police said. Workers from at least 10 factories erected barricades on a major highway near Dhaka, asking for unpaid wages for the month of March, Siddiqur Rahman, district unit chief of the industrial […]
Bangladesh on Monday announced the closure of all educational institutions for 15 days after three more coronavirus cases were reported in the South Asian country. Deputy Minister for Education, Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury, told reporters in Dhaka that the closures will begin on Wednesday as Tuesday is a public holiday. The measure is effective until March […]
A court in Bangladesh sentenced 16 people to death on Thursday for the murder of Nusrat Jahan, an 18-year-old girl. Jahan was set on fire after refusing to withdraw a sexual harassment complaint against the head teacher of the seminary she attended. Prosecutor Hafez Ahammad said the special tribunal dealing with crimes related to the […]
When Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai pensively declared in his speech at the ongoing summit on security in Abuja that “Insurgency remains one difficult form of asymmetric warfare. Nations must explore new frontiers of knowledge to understand this world threat,” it struck my heart thunderously. His words vibrated and […]
Malaysia is reported to turn away migrants abandoned at sea from Myanmar and Bangladesh unless they are in imminent danger of sinking, a top coast guard official has said. Malaysia becomes second Southeast nation to refuse entry of migrants, Aljazeera reports. Malaysia’s announcement on Wednesday makes it the second Southeast Asian country after Indonesia […]
A joint patrol team of Bangladesh coast guards and navy detained a trawler in the Bay of Bengal Tuesday after it was cast adrift with 116 Malaysia-bound illegal migrants on board, a coast guard commander said. “There were 116 illegal migrants in the fishing trawler. They are all Bangladeshis,” coast guard station commander Dickson Chowdhury […]
Powerful storms swept Bangladesh at the weekend leaving a trail of devastation in the country’s northwest and killing at least 35 people, officials said on Monday. Rescuers and villagers recovered the bodies of victims after storms flattened thousands of houses, uprooted trees and electricity poles and damaged paddy fields across a large area on Saturday […]
At least 10 Hindu pilgrims have been killed in a stampede during a bathing ritual at a holy site in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, BBC reports. Police inspector Nasir Ahmed told AFP news agency the crush had involved “huge numbers of people”. The 16 quays used for the ritual bathing were unable to cope with so many […]